When Is A Parrot Not A Parrot? When It’s A Woman Wearing Bodypaint

I’ve seen some impres­sive body­paint illu­sions before but this one is absolutely incredible.

If you’d showed me this photo and asked me what I was looking at, I would have said a parrot. Even after reading that it was in fact someone painted to look like a parrot I really had to stare at it to figure out the details.

It’s much easier for me to see again now that I’ve seen it but it still looks very like a parrot. Great painting, careful posing and also well photographed.

An amazing bit of art by Johannes Stötter. His other images are well worth looking at too.